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Chrysanthemum, Piet MondrianI ate lunch at my desk (a bagel with salmon spread) and hied off to the Starbuck’s to spend an hour reading the chapter on writing dramatic scenes in Make A Scene (by Jordan Rosenfeld) and doing story notes in my journal. I’m anxious about fitting in certain important information without falling into dull exposition and dragging down the narrative and at the same time keep Ferrant moving toward the change he’s going to undergo. I like the scenes I’ve written about him so far, and don’t want the flow to stop. Rosenfeld supplied the answer–simple: build up to his change. Building up to it gives me room to write about the other stuff that needs to be there, and then, when I reach Ferrant’s dramatic turning point, it’ll be great! I’ll get the effect I want. Yay!

Books read in 2007

Making A Literary Life, Carolyn See

Daughter of Hounds, Caitlin Kiernan

Take Joy, Jane Yolen

The Fantastic Art of Jacek Yerka

In the Snow Forest, three novellas by Roy Parvin

Storm Runners, T. Jefferson Parker

Twentynine Palms, Deanne Stillman

Los Angeles Noir, edited by Denise Hamilton

Reading Like A Writer

By Cunning & Craft, Peter Selgin

The Prestige, Christopher Priest

How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt & Live Prosperously, Jerrold Mundis

Perfectly Plum

god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens

Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows, J. K. Rowling

Bitten & Smitten, Michelle Rowen

His Majesty’s Dragon, Naomi Novik

The End of Faith, Sam Harris

Ride The Pink Horse, Dorothy B. Hughes

Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham

How to Become a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead, Ariel Gore

Blue Moon, Laurell K. Hamilton

Fanged and Fabulous, Michelle Rowen

Rain Fall, Barry Eisler

Movies Seen In 2007

Notes on a Scandal

Pan’s Labyrinth

The Messengers

Smokin’ Aces, 2/15/07 (ICK! A case of Thursday night desparation.)

Breach

Amazing Grace (Great movie!)

Lucky You (ICK! Except for Eric Bana)

28 Weeks

Spiderman 3

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (Loved it.)

Ocean’s 13 (good, clever dialogue, great interaction between George Clooney and Brad Pitt)